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The Assistance League of Las Vegas recently received a check from Findlay Automotive Group for $5,000 to help meet clothing needs for schoolchildren. Findlay Automotive Group Chief Financial Officer Tyler Corder delivered the check Dec. 4 to the chapter’s offices at 6446 W. Charleston Blvd.

The new Hyundai Genesis sedan has a brain of its own

The 2015 Hyundai Genesis sedan, rated the No. 1 midsize Premium Car by J.D. Power and Associates, has a long line of standard features. But the car’s smart cruise control has drawn international acclaim.

Horse of the Year vote a difficult race to call

When I first started voting for horse racing’s Eclipse Awards some 16 years ago, the first rule I learned was there are no rules.

Teaming up to build effective teaching force

Despite efforts to recruit licensed educators for the 2014-15 school year, the Clark County School District began the year with nearly 700 teaching vacancies. About a month ago, this number remained at more than 600, and the vast majority of classroom vacancies are in schools in low-income communities and those that serve families whose primary language is not English.

EDITORIAL: Poll shows we get government we deserve

We live in amazing times. We have access to an unprecedented amount of technology, which gives us equally unprecedented access to information. We can find out virtually anything we want or need to know, anytime, virtually anywhere we go, and we can share our findings — and our thoughts and opinions about those findings — with countless people, many of whom are doing the same exact thing.

EDITORIAL: The next bubble?

The rising cost of higher education is a crisis, but in more ways than you might think. Yes, ever-higher tuition bills price many students out of a university education. But increasing college costs also compel students to take out ever-higher amounts of taxpayer-backed student loans. And, as Jason Delisle pointed out in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed, an ever-higher number of those loans will never be fully repaid.

Mariota, Ducks expose Seminoles with beat down in Rose Bowl

Finally, it was time to dispel myths. This one lingered, similar to the smell of a skunk, for four months until Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota cleared the air in a span of 2 minutes, 22 seconds.

 
Naked man stops traffic along California freeway

A witness called authorities at 11:11 a.m. to report the nude man running in and out of traffic along westbound lanes near Severin Drive, CHP officer Tommy Doerr said.

 
Experts step up hunt for crashed AirAsia flight black box

International experts equipped with sophisticated acoustic detection devices joined search teams scouring the sea off Borneo on Friday in the hunt for the black box flight recorders from a crashed Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet.

Ohio State shocks Alabama in Sugar Bowl

Sophomore running back Ezekiel Elliott battered the Alabama defense for 230 rushing yards, including an 85-yard touchdown burst with 3:24 left, powering fourth-ranked Ohio State to a 42-35 upset victory over the top-ranked Crimson Tide in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

 
Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo dead at 82

Mario Cuomo, the three-time Democratic governor of New York who turned down several invitations to seek the U.S. presidency, has died at the age of 82.

Vizsla puppy almost home after cross-country road trip

A puppy called Penny could be reunited with her worry-stricken U.S. owners by week’s end after she went on a nearly 2,400-mile road trip that took her to an Iowa truck stop and a Pennsylvania pet hospital, her family said on Tuesday.

Las Vegas Fire Department responds to four cooking fires

The Las Vegas Fire Department responded to four separate cooking-related, noninjury fires Thursday between about 4 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., prompting fire department spokesman Tim Szymanski to remind people that cooking fires are completely preventable.

Nevada juvenile facilities neglect to seek education funding

Nevada’s three juvenile correctional facilities are failing to seek education reimbursements that could save about $632,000 annually, according to a recent state audit.

New psychiatric beds credited with relieving valley emergency rooms

The number of mentally ill patients waiting in valley emergency rooms for psychiatric facility placements significantly decreased in December, with only 29 people in that situation as of Tuesday. That’s a surprising new low for a population that had been climbing, pushing several emergency rooms to capacity and forcing them to close to new patients in 2014.

5 things to do around town

Madame Tussauds Las Vegas is introducing “The Hangover” Experience, an 1,100-square-foot room that includes re-creations of the trashed Caesars Palace suite, a wedding chapel and a wrecked police car, as well as wax figures of Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis) and Phil (Bradley Cooper).

Son decapitated mom on NYE over ‘nagging,’ Fla. police say

When the cops showed up to a subdivision Wednesday night in Oldsmar, Florida, it wasn’t to break up a loud party or for any sort of bacchanalian revelry typical of New Year’s Eve. Responding deputies found the decapitated body of 48-year-old Maria Suarez Cassagne alongside garbage cans outside of the Tampa-area home.

CCSD expands magnet programs while planning to cut transportation

Clark County School District’s magnet program expansion will increase the number of magnet seats by about 25 percent over two years. The problem is transportation, which the district plans to greatly reduce by more than $30 million.

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